Hello Earl,   
      
    EC> Everyone is now welcome in this near-dead echo. All past user bans are   
    EC> lifted as of today. If anyone wants to be moderator, I will send you the   
    EC> password for the listing.   
      
   Before you get your panties wet, here is what Echopol1 has to   
   say in matters concerning who is, and who is not, Moderator of   
   this echo -   
      
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   Echopol1 Segment 1   
      
   16.   ADDING OR  REMOVING  CONFERENCES  FROM  THE  Backbone:    A   
   conference may  be added  to the  Backbone only by request of the   
   RECOGNIZED Conference  Moderator.   A conference  may be  removed   
   from the Backbone by lack of traffic. A committee composed of the   
   ZEC and  4 RECs shall review the status of backbone echos every 6   
   months.    At  which time those echos which have not maintained a   
   minimum 10  messages a  week over the preceeding 6 months will be   
   noted and  their Conference  moderators will be contacted.  These   
   conferences will  be given  3 months  to improve their traffic or   
   withdraw from  Fidonet backbone  distribution.    The  recognized   
   conference moderator may request removal of their conference from   
   the Fidonet backbone distribution at their discretion.   
      
                        -=end quote=-   
      
   No private elist/echolist has any official status in Fidonet.   
   The previous moderator left this echo, for reasons of his own,   
   and has chosen not to return.  He is, of course, very welcome   
   to participate, the same as you and others.   
      
   I have posted the rules of this echo several times.  There   
   are only two rules, both of them very simple and easy to remember.   
   I will post them again, right here, so that you will have no   
   excuse -   
      
   1. There are no rules.   
   2. See rule number 1.   
      
   That about sums it up.   
      
   Havea nice day.   
      
   Lee Lofaso, Moderator of DEBATE   
      
   --    
   Often Licked, Never Beaten   
      
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